Microsoft is constantly optimising our productivity. Last year they announced mobile center. It is a bundle of services to help mobile developers with CI. Microsoft has been working hard to integrate the functionalities we already used (app distribution, crash reports, analytics,...). Last week I finally switched to the new platform
For an upcoming blog post I wanted to use a custom font for the title of my Xamarin Forms NavigationPage. Whether or not it is against the design guidelines is another discussion.
While you can easily set the BarBackgroundColor and the BarTextColor on a NavigationPage, changing the font can’t
After a complete reinstall of my mac and Xamarin Studio, I was quite surprised to see my Android simulator die on startup. No messages where displayed in the XS "Error" pad or "Deploying to device" pad. Just "Execution failed".
I opened up the AVD manager and started an
Normally I'm developing on a mac with Xamarin Studio. Debugging an Android project on the Android emulator running on your mac is easy, because it just works. But now and the I need to do some work from my windows machine. My windows is running as a VM with Parallels
Xamarin Forms is getting better with each iteration, there's no doubt about that. We have more controls at our disposal than Win32 devs started with. If it doesn't fit our needs you can use effects. Changing a BoxView into a circle seems to be possible, but felt a bit wrong.
